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Najma Heptulla was born on 13 April, 1940 in Bhopal, Bhopal State, British India, is an Indian politician. Discover Najma Heptulla's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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Born 13 April 1940
Birthday 13 April
Birthplace Bhopal, Bhopal State, British India
Nationality India

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Her husband is Akbar Ali Akhtar Heptulla (m. 1966-2007)

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1940

Najma Akbar Ali Heptulla (born 13 April 1940) is an Indian politician.

She was the Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia from 2017 to 2023, until Mufaddal Saifuddin was elected as new Chancellor on 14 March 2023.

Najma was born as Sayyida Najma bint Yusuf on 13 April 1940 in Bhopal, Bhopal State, in present Madhya Pradesh to Sayyid Yusuf bin Ali AlHashmi and Sayyida Fatima bint Mahmood.

She is a Dawoodi Bohra Ismaili Shia Gujarati Muslim with Arab ancestry, as traced by her ancestral roots in the Arabian peninsula as well as Gujarat state.

She did her schooling at Motilal Vigyan Mahavidyalaya (MVM) Bhopal, and obtained an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree, both in Zoology (Cardiac Anatomy) from Vikram University, Ujjain.

1958

Heptulla faced charges of having morphed a 1958 photograph to show her along with Maulana Abul Kalam Azad in a publication of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR).

The controversial photograph was published in an ICCR publication titled 'Journey of a legend', on the life of Maulana Azad, a noted scholar and the country's first education minister.

1960

Her husband, Akbar Ali Akhtar Heptulla, a manpower consultant, was instrumental in the establishment of The Patriot newspaper in the 1960s.

1966

She married Akbar Ali Akhtar Heptulla in 1966, and has three daughters.

1980

She was a six time member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament, between 1980 and 2016, and Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha for sixteen years when she was a member of Congress.

Since 1980, she was a member of the Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra for four terms, elected in 1980, 1986, 1992, 1998 as Congress candidate.

1985

Najma was the Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha from January 1985 to January 1986 and from 1988 to July 2004.

1986

She was the General Secretary of Congress during 1986 with the additional responsibility of youth activities of the All India Congress Committee and the NSUI.

1993

She also presided over the women parliamentarians' group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in 1993 and became founder president of the parliamentarians' forum for human development the same year.

1997

Heptulla led a delegation to the UN Commission on Status of Women in 1997.

Heptulla has authored book on AIDS titled "AIDS: Approaches to Prevention".

She has also written on human social security, sustainable development, environment, reforms for women and on ties between India and west Asia.

1999

She was also elected President of Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a Geneva-based international organisation at Council's 165th session in Berlin in 1999.

She held the post from 16 October 1999 to 27 September 2002.

2002

Subsequently, in 2002, at Council's 171st session, she was chosen the Honorary President of the IPU Council.

Heptulla was nominated by the United Nations Development Programme as its human development ambassador.

2004

Heptulla joined Bharatiya Janata Party in 2004.

Media sources reported that she left the Congress apparently due to a strain in relationship with Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

Later she alleged that she was personally humiliated by Sonia Gandhi.

She declared that she was leaving the party due to the problems with party leadership.

She was a member of Rajya Sabha, representing Rajasthan for BJP from July 2004 to July 2010.

2007

She contested the 13th vice-presidential election held in August 2007 but lost to Hamid Ansari by 233 votes.

He died on 4 September 2007, in New Delhi at the age of 75.

She steadily climbed up in the Indian National Congress party, heading several divisions of the party's grassroots organisations.

In 2007, BJP-led NDA fielded her as a candidate in the elections for the Vice-President of India, which was won by Hamid Ansari.

2010

Under Nitin Gadkari as BJP President, she became one of the 13 vice-presidents of the BJP in 2010, where later when Rajnath Singh took over, she was made a member of the party's national executive.

2012

Later she was nominated vice-president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2012, and was a minister from 2014-2016 as a member of BJP in Narendra Modi's first government.

She was nominated by the BJP for the Rajya Sabha in 2012 from Madhya Pradesh, and assumed her office on 24 April 2012 upon election.

2014

She took oath as a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi headed government on 26 May 2014 and was replaced by Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi in July 2016.

Heptulla served as the Minister of Minority Affairs in Prime minister Narendra Modi's cabinet from 26 May 2014 to 12 July 2016.

She said that minorities needed a level playing field in Indian society, but reservation is not the solution as it kills the spirit of competition.

2016

From 2016 to 2021, she served as the 16th Governor of Manipur.

She is a second cousin to actor Aamir Khan and grand niece of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

She resigned from her positions as a minister and a member of Rajya Sabha in 2016 when she was nominated Governor of Manipur.

Heptulla was nominated to head the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, ICCR.